Use of Goal Attainment Scaling in Brain Injury in a Rehabilitation Hospital1

Goal-directed outpatient rehabilitation following TBI: A pilot study of programme effectiveness and comparison of outcomes in home and day hospital settings

“…Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS): is a well recognized tool in which individualized goals are quantified to measure client progress over time [25]. GAS has been used to measure outcomes of brain injury rehabilitation programmes [26,27].…”

Assessing the Gap Between Current Movement Ability and Preferred Movement Ability as a Measure of Disability

“…16 (2.54) logits-the overall gap for our participants with MS seemed most similar to the average gap for people who had movement problems. 22 The similarity in the size of the gap may indicate that the physical and psychosocial impacts of MS were not manifested in differences in the ways our participants responded to the MAM items.…”

“…Both show evidence of reliability and validity. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Neither goal attainment scaling nor the Patient-specific Functional Scale explicitly records any gaps remaining at the end of rehabilitation between outcomes achieved and patient-preferred abilities. In addition, the patient specificity of different tasks in both measures limits their usefulness for comparisons across cases.…”

A Clinimetric Evaluation of Specialized Geriatric Care for Rural Dwelling, Frail Older People

“…The primary outcome, GAS, 28 recorded the degree of patient‐related goal achievement between baseline and follow‐up. Its measurement properties in inpatients has been studied by our group 19,29–31 and otherwise cross‐validated 32–36 . Briefly, the patients' current needs (medical, self‐care, mobility, balance, future care) were identified at baseline and recorded on a GAS follow‐up guide.…”